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Friday Foto Finish: Remembering the Truly Poor During America’s Economic Crisis
By Jeremy | September 26, 2008
One of the billions of human beings around the world who subsist on less than $1 a day.
Rev. Ray Rivera from LPAC reminded me today about the Micah Challenge, an international effort to mobilize Christians against poverty. “The campaign aims to deepen Christian engagement with impoverished and marginalised communities, and to influence leaders of rich and poor nations to fulfil their promise to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).”
Lost in the hubbub of America’s banking crisis the last two weeks has been the cry from the global South for American evangelicals specifically to embrace the MDGs to eradicate extreme poverty by the year 2015.
“And so we ask you as sisters and brothers, citizens of the wealthiest most powerful nation on earth, to publicly challenge your candidates and political leaders – now and after the elections are over – to lead the world in the struggle to cut global poverty in half by 2015. … If you who know the truth will not speak for us who will?”
The Millenium Development Goals are consistent with any reasonable understanding of scripture.
Support the Micah Challenge by “signing” the Call online.
This is a moment in history of unique potential,
when the stated intentions of world leaders
echo something of the mind of the Biblical prophets
and the teachings of Jesus concerning the poor, and
when we have the means to dramatically reduce poverty.We commit ourselves, as followers of Jesus,
to work together for the holistic transformation of our communities,
to pursue justice, be passionate about kindness
and to walk humbly with God.We call on international and national decision-makers
of both rich and poor nations, to fulfil their public promise
to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
and so halve absolute global poverty by 2015.We call on Christians everywhere to be agents of hope
for and with the poor, and to work with others
to hold our national and global leaders accountable
in securing a more just and merciful world.
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